Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Thank You

Just wanted to take a second out to say thanks to everybody who read, wrote, commented and spread the word on Facebook and Twitter during our big DXM Fifth Birthday Jubilee. Not only was the month of May the most prolific around here in more than a year -- with more posts than any other single month since March of 2010 -- but the readership was tremendous across the board.

11 comments:

As a relatively new reader - and still working my way through Dead Star Twilight - I'm so glad to have discovered your blog this year. Your writing is so real and fierce, and you have a great background and a neat perspective. So thank _you_ too.

What's really cool for those of us who've been following you for a long time is seeing how the blog has evolved from those uncertain beginnings. So often, blogs begin with a lot of good ideas and intentions, and then fizzle out as life happens. It's been... what, more than 4 years since I stumbled on your blog, and I don't think a day has gone by that I haven't popped in several times to see what new material has come up. Laughed to the point where my coworkers wondered about my sanity (they needn't have, it's been long gone), nodded my head in agreement, and cried silently so as to not draw attention.

So welcome to all the newer folks... you've found yourself a really cool corner of the interwebs. And from those of us who've been around for a long time, trust us, it's worth sticking around.

Hear, hear, Christine. I wrote to Chez almost the exact same thing about the evolution of his writing. It's difficult to see from day to day, but really cool when you take a step back and take a more panoramic view of his style.

We won't tell the newbies (See, kids? It IS okay to spell words correctly!) that the secret fun is sometimes in the comments section, though. They'll have to figure that out for themselves.

No you goofball! It was a reference to the fact that I made a typo on your name not too long ago and you called me on it. I was trying to let you know that I was being overly careful about your name. Jeezusmotherofgod!

I guess I thought it was an inside joke that, turns out, had no insides at all.

I can keep calling you an asshole if you want. I just thought I'd give you a cookie on your 5th, and all.

I'm a former network news producer and manager, the media editor at The Daily Banter, and a writer who's been featured in The Huffington Post,The New York Observer and The Village Voice. I'm also the author of a book called Dead Star Twilight and the founder of DXM Media, a firm specializing in television production as well as social media strategies and consulting. On top of all that crap, I'm the co-host of "The Bob & Chez Show" podcast and radio show with Bob Cesca. To find out more about me and/or throw money at me, go here. You can contact me at deusexmalcontent@gmail.com or chez@dxmmedia.com. Follow me on Twitter at @chezpazienza.

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"As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being."

"Pazienza could be accused of many things... but he could never be faulted for dumbing us down. His glued-shut prose and bawdy metaphors provide a deeply appreciated, and hilarious, literary diversion."

-- Gelf Magazine, "Insolence Is Bliss," June, 2008

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